
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers and nearly all the cast. Interviews with production staff, including Ridley, give details into the creative process and turmoil during preproduction. Stories from Paul M. Sammon and Fancher provide insight into Philip K. Dick and the origins of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Interweaved are cast interviews with the notable exceptions of Harrison Ford and Sean Young. Through these interviews we get a sense of how difficult and frustrating the film was to make as a result of an exacting director without allies and hot, wet, smoggy conditions; which added to the high pressure atmosphere everyone increasingly felt as the film went over budget. There is also a tour of some locations, most notably the Bradbury Building and the Warner Brothers backlot that was the LA 2019 streets, which look very different from Ridley's dark version.
Release Date: 2000-07-15
Documentary
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Casts

Mark Kermode
as Self - Presenter

Brian Aldiss
as Self

Joanna Cassidy
as Self

Hampton Fancher
as Self

Daryl Hannah
as Self

Rutger Hauer
as Self

James Hong
as Self

Syd Mead
as Self

David Webb Peoples
as Self

Terry Rawlings
as Self